Affiliation:
1. IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India
2. Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad, India
Abstract
The healthcare system is transforming from traditional medication to smart healthcare. Smart healthcare plays a vital role in urban development. Medicines and injections are the key building blocks of the healthcare system. Environmental conditions like temperature, pressure, and humidity can adversely affect the quality of medicines and injections. So, maintaining proper temperature and humidity is a must to keep them safe. There is need of continuous monitoring of medicines and injections during their supply chain. The wireless sensor network (WSN) strives to detect surrounding parameters and relay sensed data to the base station without any human deployment. Supply chain management (SCM) in healthcare system is also one of the applications, which requires a different type of monitoring, supervision, and handling at different levels. WSN adds a contribution in the making of smart healthcare, as it uses the smart way (sensors) of monitoring the medicines and injections in the supply chain.